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...have the city's 26 "Public Enemies" arrested and held in exorbitant bail under an old vagrancy law (TIME, Oct. 13). So erratic and unstable that he had scant support from lawyers, Judge Lyle focused his campaign on the charge that Mayor Thompson was in league with the underworld, that Gangster Alphonse Capone had contributed $50,000 to the last Thompson campaign and was now ready to help the Mayor steal the forthcoming primary election. He summarized: "The real issue is whether Al Capone is to be authorized to rule Chicago again through the medium of a dummy...
When a criminal comes to Boston, according to Hultman, he immediately finds that he is being constantly trailed by the police. Any infraction of the law will insure his being locked up. This shadowing prevents the crook's getting a start in the underworld here; it upsets his morale, and discourages his stay. The roving auto patrols which have been almost doubled since Hultman became commissioner last May, place the thug in constant danger of being surprised at work or being picked up as a suspicious character...
College drinkers care little what happens to the Eighteenth Amendment. They drink--amendment or no amendment but with repeal of the prohibition act a college education would cost them less. On the other hand, the gents of the underworld focus their attention on the activities of the lawmakers. Their jobs depend upon a continuance of the present lawlessness of liquor sale...
Crime, in its bloody ugliness, would not drop from sight if underworld liquor traffic were ceased. Hundreds of "gat" toters would be without employment and without subsistence. Would that not be more of a temptation to commit crime than a mere "bump off" order from a whisky mogul? The underworld was not created by prohibition, but it has become enormously rich from its major industry...
...crime problems cannot call a halt to thoughts and suggestions toward prohibition repeal or revision. Educationally or economically the underworld can be conquered--victory being only a matter of 10 or more years...